Match-making machine.



No. 892,602. PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

J. W. LUNDGREN.

MATCH MAKING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED AUG.17, 19061" @Ziined'a.Zfwenioncarrying bolt.

UNl lliiD STATES JOHN W. LUNDGREN, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

MATCH MALKING MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July '7, 1908.

Application filed August 11:, 1906. Serial at. 330,978.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. LUNDonEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota,have invented certain new and useful lmproy'ements in Match-MakingMachines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to match making machines and has for its object theprovision of means for retarding the splint-receiving belt at the lineof transfer of the splints from the cutter-head to the belt. The purposeof this is to draw or hold the splint-receiving link, at that line, backagainst the propelling faces of the gear-teeth which would normallydrive it, and so take u the wear and steady the link, and also to he (1said link up against the face of the driving wheels and against a fixedcentral abutment so that there will be practically no yielding of thelink when the splints are thrust into it, and the tendency for the linkto spring or yield when the cutter head draws away from the splints willbe greatly diminished.

\Vith these and other objects in view, it consists of the constructions,combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimedIn the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, is a fragmentary front elevationof a match making machine,on1itting the match and splint l n is aperspective view of one link of 'a match and splint carrying belt and ofthe link retarding and upholding device which the link has passed over.Fig. 3, is a central vertical longitudinal sectional View of the tongueB of said retarding and upholding device.

My invention may perhaps be applied to various match making machines butis espccially applicable to the improvement of the machine disclosed byLetters Patent of the United States dated the 22nd day of August 1905,No. 797697, issued to John W. bundgren and Alfred J. Bell, jointly, formatch making machines.

In the herewith accompanying drawings, 1, is a fragment of a supportingframe unibodying angle iron ways 1.". ivlounted on said frame is arotatable shaft 2. Keyed to said shaft are sprocket wheels 3, 3, which"engage a conveycrbclt embodying bars (5 manner in rear of said sprocketwheels and extending forwardly between said sprocket wheels is ahorizontally disposed fixed abutmont'plate 5, the lower face of which ison the horizontal plane of the lower faces of said sprocket wheels, saidabutment extending at its forward end' onl a short distance forward ofcentral vertical plane of the axis of rotation of said sprocket wheels.Secured to said frame forward of said sprocket wheels are abutmentguides 1 1 between which and the sprocket wheels, the conveyer beltpasses downward and thence backward below said abutment 5 and said beltbeing in its downward and backward course enaged by the teeth of saidsprocket wheels. becured to said angle irons is a plate prefer ably comrising the body portion A and the rearwardy extending arms'B, C, and D,which plate extends below the conveyor belt, which at that point travelsrearwardly between said plate and said abutment 5.

Mounted on said plate are spring supported lingers 8, 9 and ldadapted toyieldingly bear againstthe lower faces of the successive bars of saidbelt on the line of delivery of splints to said belt (which line isparallel "1th the axis of rotation of said sprocket wheels and in thesame vertical plane th.e re. with), and to hold back the bars on thatlineand against the driving faces of the sprocket teeth, to take up thewear. also designed to hold said links up against the faces of saidsprocket teeth and to prevent or reduce the tendency cf the links tobuckle downward when the cutter knives (not shown, but well known to theart) are being withdrawn from the splints which have been thrustupwardly by them into the conveyor belt bars. E and F are tension wheelswhich engage said conveyor belt at the point where it turns to wasdownwardly in front of the machine. bald belt extends rcarwardly and. isengaged at its rearward loop by idler wheels (not shown, but well Saidfingers are belt at t known to the art) thrusts upward a series ofsplints into an empty bar of said belt.

What I claim is, a. 1. In a match making machine, thecombination of aframe, a splint receivin link, means for driving said link across the eat which it receives splints, means for punchin said splints out of saidlink after said sp ints have been embodied in finished matches, yieldinlink-retarding-and -'supporting means a apted to' bear up against saidlink after it has passed the punching out means and before it has passedthe line at which it receives splints.

2. In a match making machine the combination of a frame, asplintreceivin link, means for driving said link across the ine at whichit receives splints, means 'for punch-l 'ing said splints out of saidlink after they have been embodied in finished matches,

1t is passing the. line at which it receives splints.

3. In a match making machine, the combination of a frame, a splintreceiving link, means for driving said hnk across a hne at which itreceives splints, spring fingers adapted to bear up against the splintreceiving side-of said link while it is passing said me. v I

- In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in presence of twoWitnesses.

' JOHN W. LUNDGREN. Witnesses:

JAMES T. WATSON,

. WILLIAM J. STEVENSON.

